These two snapshots have been digitally enhanced so you can see the detail better. They are from the Benedicta Trunk album and both were in some other photo album before Ben put them in her own album. The photo on top is of four people in a cemetery. While our modern conventions might make that …
These two photos are very small. Including the card stock, they are just 1.5×1.5. They are part of the Benedicta Trunk album, and were both tucked into an opening the size of a CdV. The photo on the left is of a boy and his dog, taken at Busy Bee Photo. The photo on the …
Here we have the lovely Gertrude Messenger Trunk who was married on October 8, 1914. That date was the anniversary of John & Mary Trunk. It’s a somewhat whimsical yet pensive pose, and I wonder if this is her wedding photo. We have learned that Gertrude was married to Edward L. Trunk where previously I …
We looked at this day in the life of the Trunk family a while back, and in the previous photo everyone seemed very happy, while in this image Ruth in the front seems sleepy or out of sorts, Benedicta in the second row to the right looks resigned and the sister to the left looks …
This very handsome man is Edward L. Trunk in 1913. The second image is the back side of the photo, and reads “When a fellow’s ??? M-something 1913.” I am very curious what it says and I just can’t make anything fit that phrase. The photo is lightweight and perhaps was cut out of a …
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